The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.